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Nine rookie drivers are gearing up for FP1 at the Mexican Grand Prix, as every team, bar Sauber, confirms their line-ups for the session. Under current F1 regulations, each team must field a rookie driver in two FP1 sessions per car – doubling last season’s requirement of just one.

At over 7,200ft above sea level, the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez is a unique test, and this weekend’s guide to the challenge it provides is local hero Pato O’Ward, who will be taking part in FP1 again for McLaren.

Mexican driver Pato O'Ward shared an update with his fans after being taken ill following his stint with McLaren during the first practice session of the Mexico Grand Prix race weekend.

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The Mexico City Grand Prix’s opening practice on Friday will feature no less than nine rookies taking part in the FP1 session.

There was so much going on in the Mexico City Grand Prix, but Chris Medland argues that by finishing fourth in a race where nobody starting ahead of them retired, Oliver Bearman and Haas overshadowed the rest.

The Ferrari driver set the benchmark time of 1m18.380s to pip the Mercedes of Kimi Antonelli by 0.107s and the

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Formula 1 rookie crashed in a TPC test at Zandvoort ahead of scheduled FP1 session at the 2025 Mexico City Grand Prix.

Oliver Bearman has lamented the fact that he had to skip Free Practice 1 at the Mexico Grand Prix owing to Formula 1’s sporting regulations. Teams are mandated to run rookies in each car on two occasions this season on grand prix weekends,